Animal Husbandry
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The Trampling Herd
by Wellman, Paul I
New York: Carrick & Evans, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo. 433 pages. Illustrations by F. Miller. Dark red cloth hardcover with faded title on the spine. Map illustrated end papers. Previous owner's inscription partly crossed out on the right front flyleaf. Adams Six-Guns 2340; Adams Herd 2462.
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CA$41.51
Four-Legged Australians: Adventures with Animals and Men in Australia
by Bernhard Grzimek
New York: Hill & Wang, 1967. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 1967 First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. DJ present, in plastic wrap. Ex-Library with standard markings. 312p.
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CA$15.15
The Guernesy: A Portrayal of the Advancement of Guernsey Cattle in America
by CALDWELL, William H
Peterborough, N.H.: American Guernsey Cattle Club, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Pictorial cloth. Bottom half of page 1 cut out, else very good.
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CA$48.43
The Dairyman's Manual: Being A Complete Guide For The American Dairyman, With Numerous Illustrations.
by Evans, Gurdon
Utica: John W. Fuller & Company. Good+. 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Ink stain on corner front board and along fore-edge on rear board, tight and internally clean. ; 8vo ; Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, vi, 235p., 7 plates. .
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CA$93.41
The Goatkeepers Guide
by Salmon, Jill
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. * Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: David & Charles* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, Gilt title to spine. No Rubs, Slight bumps to bottom corners. VG* Jacket condition: price clipped, colour photographic cover, some very minor shelf wear to edges & spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, crisp, tight and bright. Some slight marks here and there, No inscriptions or annotations. VG* Illustrations: B/w & line drawings...
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CA$9.99
The Ten Master Minds of Dairying
Des Moines: Successful Farming, 1930. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 78pp. Wear to black paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Tear to bottom corner at rear cover. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this work on masters of dairying, including chapters on Stephen Moulton Babcock, Wiliam Dempster Hoard, Clarence Henry...
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CA$48.43
British Wild Life: A Selection from the National Collection of Nature Photographs
by E. M. Nicholson (editor)
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1966. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 1966. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. 240p.
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CA$15.15
Southern Poultry Guide or Forty Years with Poultry
by Cal Husselman
Richmond, VA: The Southern Planter Publishing Co., 1908. 115pp. 20 photos. Green linen boards. Some spotting to cover. Hinges cracked. A good solid copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
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CA$166.06
The Ancient White Cattle of Britain and Their Descendants
by Whitehead, G. Kenneth
London: Faber & Faber, 1953. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 174, a tiny indentation to the half-title, the title page and the following three pages, otherwise extremely clean and bright internally, white decorated buckram, very slightly marked. [Presentation copy from the author to Lady Mary Gore Booth. Until recently the Gore-Booth family owned Lissadell House and estate in County Sligo.]. Signed by Author. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good.
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CA$165.04
Country Gentlemen Magazine
Waiting for the Bus. 196 pages. Features: Prescription for sick lands; Oat growing goes modern; How to choose a cow; Speed king of the west - the famed quarter horse; The orange-grove dream - the farm and family of Harley Lester of Orange County, FL; Breeding for more eggs; Cattle feeders cut costs; Spray machines for weed control; A house built of blocks; Proved sires mean money-making cows; Better prove the dairyman, too; Spreading the carpet for wings - farmers continue to use aviation; Looking ahead...
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CA$206.88
Present State of Husbandry in Scotland
by [Andrew Wight]
Edinburgh: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778-84. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. A scarce six volume collection regarding agriculture in Scotland during the eighteenth century, with delightful gilt spines. ESTC Citation No. T103102.This work examines agriculture, relating to the management of resources, cultivation of crops and care of animals. Specifically, the author was commissioned to prepare surveys on a number of different farms across Scotland.It fell to the author, Andrew Wight, to...
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CA$6,601.74CA$5,941.57
Kangaroo-Land" Glimpses of Australia. With Map and 71 Illustrations
by Harris, Captain Kilroy
Cleveland OH: Kilroy Harris Traveltalks, 1926. Hardcover. 88p., presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock throughout featuring a doublespread map (where to graze sheep, where cattle, where to plant wheat) centerfold, and many b&w site and portrait photos. Hardbound in 9x6 inch dark blue cloth boards gilt, a very good copy: sturdy and flat, top and tail rims show a little color-loss, otherwise absolutely sound, clean, and free of any markings besides an authorial inscription signed and dated 1932. Capt....
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CA$27.68
Pigs for the Ancestors; Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People
by Rappaport, Roy A
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Hardcover. xx, 311p., illustrated with b&w photos and a few line maps, first edition hardbound in orange cloth covers and enclosed in the price clipped dust jacket. Aside from a blotchy textblock edge blotchy with foxing, item is fine: quite sound, otherwise clean, and unmarked.
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CA$20.76
The People's Horse, Cattle, Sheep and Swine Doctor: Containing, in Four Parts, Clear and Concise Descriptions of the Diseases of the Respective Animals, With the Exact Doses of Medicine for Each
by William H. Clarke (editor)
New York: M.T. Richardson Co., 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 19 cm.. Back cover has some spotting. Binding is sound and tight. 334 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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CA$56.94
Mason's Farrier and Stud-Book (New Edition). The Gentleman's New Pocket Farrier: Comprising a General Description of the Noble and Useful Animal, the Horse, with Modes of Management, in all Cases and Treatment and Disease / With a Supplement: Comprising an Essay on Domestic Animals, Especially the Horse, with Remarks on Treatment, and Breeding Together with Trotting and Racing Tables
by Mason, Richard and J. S. Skinner
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870. Hardcover. 415 pages followed 101 pages for the supplement. A very good copy. Loss to the spine ends. Split at the gutter of pages 20-21.
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CA$51.89
A Concise Treatise on the Most Effectual method of Destroying Heath, and turning the soil into good pasture; with an infalliblke mode of covering rocks, barren hills etc with verdure. Also a new mode of turning waste and marshy land into good pasture.
by Hall, Charles
Fountain Well, High Street, Edinburgh: Oliver & Co, 1802. [The title continues "Likewise a new method of improving moss etc, together with valuable receipts for destroying vermin on bushes, hedges, trees etc."]. Small octavo, pp xxvii,(ii), 228, a folding chart at the rear a little stained), light age-toning and foxing, with 7 woodcut chapter heads and tail-pieces, the hinge at the title page cracking slightly but still perfectly sound, bound in later green cloth. RARE. [From the library...
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CA$434.32
Chickens - Musings And Memories
by Milton Sernett
2016 soft cover as pictured. An interesting volume about chickens and how to raise them. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are lightly rubbed. Inscribed and signed on title page. Text is clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR
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CA$20.76
![Gleanings from Books on Agriculture and Gardening [Anthony Huxley's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/812/097/1438097812.0.b.jpg)
Gleanings from Books on Agriculture and Gardening [Anthony Huxley's copy]
London, Dublin & Edinburgh: Samuel Bagster; John Archer; Ross and Blackwood, 1802. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Two engraved plates (with stains, and virtually detached), pp 432, vii, untrimmed and unpressed, the first few pages rather weak, a small marginal stain to the last 25 pages, otherwise clean internally though rather weak, original boards with a later paper spine and small handwritten label. An over-industrious former owner has erased the printing date on the title page and...
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CA$173.73
Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, an Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; wherein the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it. The third edition, very carefully corrected
by Tull, Jethro
London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-street in the Strand, 1751. Octavo ( x cm.), xvi, 432 pages. Seven folding engraved plates. Complete. Third Edition. Tull's work is an agricultural classic,which includes the introduction of the the seed drill. The drill as well as various horse-drawn hoes and plows are illustrated in the plates. Tull was an early English proponent of the scientific advancement of agriculture and helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution. One plate with...
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CA$1,037.85
![The Intellectual Observer : Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science - Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI & XII [ 1.2.3.5.6.7.9.10.11.12.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/949/556/1496556949.0.b.jpg)
The Intellectual Observer : Review of Natural History, Microscopic Research and Recreative Science - Volumes I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI & XII [ 1.2.3.5.6.7.9.10.11.12.]
London: Groombridge & Sons Ten volumes (of 12 published), small thick octavo, all edges gilt, original cloth, with a full complement of 64 colour printed plates and 55 tinted plates, plus many dozens of text engravings, remarkably clean internally with just the very occasional mark or small stain. The cloth bindings are original, but changed in colour and style during the course of publication and are slightly worn overall; the first five volumes are faded and bleached, the upper cover of Volume XI...
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CA$608.06
Cattle on the Conejo
by Russell, J. H
The Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 136 pages, illustrations, map end-papers, slight edge wear to jacket. Ranching in California. Herd 1974..
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CA$55.35
![[POULTRY PHOTOMONTAGES] Ptitsevodstvo. Krolikovodstvo [i.e. Poultry Breeding. Rabbit Breeding] / compiled by A. Kuz'michev, edited by V. Karelin, designed by A. Belov](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/399/247/1299247399.0.b.0.jpg)
[POULTRY PHOTOMONTAGES] Ptitsevodstvo. Krolikovodstvo [i.e. Poultry Breeding. Rabbit Breeding] / compiled by A. Kuz'michev, edited by V. Karelin, designed by A. Belov
Moscow: Sel'khozgiz, 1940. [126] pp.: ill. 29x23 cm. In original cloth with gilt embossed design and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine (faded). Slightly rubbed, few defects of the back cover, some soiling of lower outer corner, otherwise very good. First and only edition. One of 5000 copies. Design by A. Belov. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and photomontages as well as three leaves with colored illustrations. Extremely rare with only copy located in Ohio University....
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CA$3,805.45
Special Report On The History And Present Condition Of The Sheep Industry of the United States
by Carman, Ezra A. , Et Al
Washington, DC: G. P. O.. Good; front hinge partiallly glued,. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo; 1000 pages; Leather bound, 96 plates, index. .
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CA$131.46
Cattle: An Informal Social History
by Laurie Winn Carlson
Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee. SIGNED by author on title page. Light edge wear and rubbing, gift inscription on first page . Very Good. Hardcover. 2001.
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CA$16.61
